Description
This book addresses concerns about educational and moral standards in a world increasingly characterised by nihilism. On the one hand there is widespread anxiety that standards are falling; on the other, new machinery of accountability and inspection to show that they are not. The authors in this book state that we cannot avoid nihilism if we are simply laissez-faire about values, neither can we reduce them to standards of performance, nor must we return to traditional values. They state that we need to create a new set of values based on a critical assessment of contemporary practice in the light of a number of philosophical texts that address the question of nihilism, including the work of Nietzsche.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Working Without Values; Chapter 1 Education Without Risk; Chapter 2 Life Skills, Teaching Skills; Chapter 3 Choice, Narrative and Work; Chapter 4 Education and the Last Man; Part 2 Overcoming Nihilism; Chapter 5 Nihilism, Nietzsche and Education; Chapter 6 Our Most Holy Duty; Chapter 7 Apollo and Dionysos; Chapter 8 Beyond Pain and Pleasure; Part 3 Raising Standards; Chapter 9 Solitude, Silence, Listening; Chapter 10 The Courage for Immorality; Chapter 11 On Having Educative Relationships With One’s Pupils; Chapter 12 Taking Ignorance Seriously;
